A chef, recipe developer, food writer, and longtime editor-at-large for Fine Cooking, Susie Middleton here shares her love of healthful, delicious veggies with a guide to shopping for and cooking delectable meatless meals. She presents such delights as Spinach with Shallots and Parmigiano, Sweet Potato Mini Fries with Limey Dipping Sauce, Roasted Broccoli with Two Dipping Sauces, Braised Fingerlings with Rosemary and Mellow Garlic, and Summer Vegetable Ragout. The book is organized by technique so that cooks can add new ways to cook veggies to their weeknight repertoires, and many of the dishes are vegan.

"[The author] offers dishes ... with layers of complexity that heighten but don't overwhelm the flavors of the intended stars, the vegetables. And she employs interesting contrasts—savory and sweet, for example—in recipes such as Vanilla and Cardamom Glazed Acorn Squash Rings; Roasted Turnips and Pears with Rosemary-Honey Drizzle; and Gingery Sweet Potato and Apple Sauté with Toasted Almonds that are likely to tempt even the vegetable-averse."—Publishers Weekly